Bøger af Jessica Tastet

Harper Ames believes she finally has her life together, leaving childhood tragedy in the past where it rightfully belongs. But with an unforeseen twist of luck, she lands right back in her childhood home where her granddaddy is literally trying to dig up one-hundred-fifty-year-old family secrets in the backyard. Emmett has been going through the motions of being the good grandson and son his entire life, but nothing has ever felt right for him since he was a child growing up with the two Ames girls next door. After the tragedy spurred on its own fifteen-year civil war between the two families, he has yearned for the happiness that he hasn't experienced since his time with Harper. But now that Harper's back helping her granddaddy search for family heirlooms lost during the Civil War, can Emmett dig up the past and manufacture a truce that will allow him to get back to that place he's longed for since that terrible day? Can Harper let go of the past as painlessly as the memories that are slipping from her granddaddy's dementia-riddled mind? To get to the place they both want, they must uncover the lies, confront the past, and realize what is the real FAMILY TREASURE.

Besides from the occasional dead person, life in Barbeaux Bayou is pretty normal. That is until resident traiteur Raleigh Cheramie stumbles across a local dead girl and the top suspects are the people closest to her.To complicate her life further, an old flame sweeps into Barbeaux with his own hidden agenda. Complicated turns to deadly as Raleigh gets closer to the secrets buried in the muddy grave.

Life in Barbeaux Bayou has been fairly normal for Raleigh Cheramie. Family gatherings, weekly visits from her dead Aunt, and waiting for the dead to need her help are all part of her not-so-average life. While volunteering at the local high school, Raleigh's Traiteur-to-the-dead abilities are put to use when students begin summoning her to their watery graves.Raleigh must untwist the sordid stories of teenagers and uncover the secrets of a cold case to put an end to the untimely demise of Barbeaux's young. But her own relationship woes with Mike have her distracted. Now she has to balance the will-they or will-they-not over Mike with solving murders and keeping the bodies from piling up. Can she figure out all the answers before it is too late for the young lives they were asked to help?

As traiteur to the dead, Raleigh Cheramie should be feeling relieved for the break the dying have given her recently. But as the granddaughter of Barbeaux's folk healer, she knows it's a sign of trouble when her unusual genetic inheritance fizzles, especially after a contestant on Barbeaux Bayou's newest reality show dies in an animal attack straight out of the Cajun folk tales of the area. But getting involved causes new relationship mayhem and places her right in the tracks of the next attack. As the contestants on her sister's new small town reality television show Barbeaux Hearts reach endangered species status though, Raleigh Cheramie must figure out the changes in her abilities to help catch a killer before her small town forms a hunting party putting the ones she cares about in danger.

After a childhood of nightmares and parental abandonment, Angelica Acacia has learned how to pretend to be normal and hide her strange inhuman abilities from others. But a series of events before her twenty-first birthday spurs an obsessive desire to discover the truth behind her mother's long ago disappearance. She remembers little else but the strange man that hunted them in her nightmares prompting the mother she'd called Lily to leave her on her grandmother's front porch. Giving in to her desire to understand why she was abandoned, she arrives in New Orleans just as a wave of gruesome murders terrorizes the city. In danger of dying by the hands of the sadistic killer, Angelica finds herself caught up in the world of an ancient species of man with her same weird abilities and the ticking clock of a prophecy whose time has come. For thirty years, Reximortum's mission has been to prevent the prophecy from branding his people the losers of this war, the Reckoning. His last chance at preventing this foretold event is to seize an ancient book and kill Valor, the name given to the person the prophecy believes will trigger the upcoming apocalypse. To ensure winning, he enlists the help of sinister dark forces, only to learn too late that destroying the prophecy may also destroy all else that he has left in this world. Landing in an unfamiliar world of secret councils and ritualistic ceremonies, Angelica must unravel her past before it is too late to prevent a prophecy that will destroy the world as humans know it.